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Researchers at cyber security firm Trustwave recently discovered a hacker database that contains more than 2 million stolen passwords associated with a variety of popular services including Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and Yahoo. These services and more have been resetting account…

Instagram has been competing with Twitter on the video sharing front for the past several months but now, they appear set to take on a new challenger with an entirely new feature. The image sharing platform is preparing to launch…

Twitter has become one of the most popular networks on the internet with its name now a household term just about everywhere. But new information surfaced by writer Nick Bilton, shows that the company wasn't always going to be called…

It’s been a while in the making but Twitter’s big day under the spotlight has finally arrived. Twitter announced a starting price of $26 per share yesterday via tweet in what is being billed as one of the hottest IPOs…

IBM has accused microblogging platform Twitter of infringing on three patents they own according to a recent update to Twitter’s S1 document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. IBM is reportedly open to resolving the violations without getting the…

Twitter has revamped its timeline to put rich media like pictures and Vine videos front and center. The move is part of a continued effort to make the service more attractive to users and potential advertisers as Twitter’s IPO inches…

Twitter is strongly considering discontinuing its Twitter #Music mobile app after a public launch just six months ago. The company is in the middle of restructuring its music department so it’s unclear exactly when the closure might happen but the…

Twitter will file its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange using the ticker symbol “TWTR” according to an amended S-1 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The decision is in stark contrast to social network…

A pair of tweets from the Twitter account @KitKat have fueled speculation that Google's next Android refresh, controversially dubbed KitKat, is set to launch later this month. Specifically, many believe we could see the new software -- and perhaps a…

Twitter is adding some new functionality to its direct messaging feature. Users who follow each other could already send direct messages back and forth as much as they wanted, as well as being able to send direct messages to those that…

An upcoming book on the history of Twitter by Nick Bilton has uncovered a number of secrets surrounding the microblogging platform. Among them is the fact that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Ballmer and Al Gore all tried to purchase Twitter during…

Twitter’s Nielsen TV Twitter Rating system is going live in the US today. The partnership was first announced in late 2012 and will see the ratings company create a metric that will measure a television program’s reach within Twitter.
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Twitter’s initial public offering filing with the Securities and Exchange commission went public last night, offering a glimpse at a number of key figures for the seven-year-old microblogging service. From ad revenue to active users to the company’s valuation and…

Microblogging platform Twitter is expected to make its IPO filing public as soon as this week according to people familiar with the matter. If everything goes smoothly, the company could be trading by late October or early November, the Wall…

General-purpose programming language Java was lauded as the next big thing a decade or so ago. As I can attest to, it was being taught as an entry-level programming course at colleges across the country and billed as the platform…

The Chinese government will soon allow access to previously banned websites in the Shanghai free-trade zone according to a report from the South China Morning Post. Citing anonymous government sources, the publication says Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times…

Twitter is kicking into motion one of the most anticipated initial public offerings in the tech industry since Facebook. The popular microblogging service yesterday announced -- via a Tweet, no less -- that it has confidentially submitted an S-1 to…

Back in June, Facebook decided to follow in the footsteps of Twitter and implemented hashtags into news feeds and posts. Like with other social media outlets, each hashtag is clickable and delivers the user to a search page for that…

Twitter users now have an easier way to report abuse on the microblogging platform across all platforms. The company is also adding more staff members to help sort through flagged tweets following an outcry in the UK over rape and…

Twitter has been the top destination for those looking for real-time discussions for quite some time through trending topics. Facebook, however, is hoping to give the microblogging platform a run for its money with their own version of trending topics.

Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook have come together along with several other major technology firms and civil liberty groups to demand a deeper level of transparency surrounding U.S. National Security Agency surveillance activity.

Google+ may be one of the most popular social networks around in terms of user base, but there really isn’t much content sharing going on. The latest report from Gigya reveals that only two percent of social sharing takes place…

Social media is in many ways a real-time news outlet. As soon as a sporting event is played, a natural disaster unfolds, or a new product is released, Twitter will keep you up to date with the most pertinent information.

Facebook is developing a newspaper platform for mobile devices. Formally called Reader, the service will act as a news aggregator that pulls together a multitude of stories coming from fellow Facebook users, as well as established publishers.

A new report from research firm eMarketer indicates that Google is on pace to sell more mobile ads this year than all of its competitors combined – for the second time in a row. That amounts to roughly $8.8 billion…